[WSIS CS-Plenary] Notes from Tunis / Media caucus

Tue Mar 9 08:52:34 GMT 2004

En Français ci-aprés,
Hi Tracy, Hi David,
many thanks for forwarding the message from David...
I like his "temoignage"... I can understand that
confusion is not only from the side of the whole
organization and the result of the first Summit of
Genva but it is also in our side the SC one.
We must understand that among us there is an important
part who are doing well to paid for transfering the
summit out of Tunisia and if possible in a North
capitale where it is easier to orientate debates and
results as in Geneva... There is also another part
less strong who try to plaid for preparing the Tunis
summit and doing their best that the summir will be
benefit fror Tunisian people, africa and South in
General...
The civile society is divides at this stage and it
should be a good strategy if we want to keep our
credibility.
Let's discuss clearly this item before going ahead...
All the best
Djilali
Hé Tracey, hé David,
Heureux de lire le compte rendu de David c'est un
témoignange enrichissant sur la division dans le camp
déjà faible de la société civile dont une partie agit
intelligemment pour justifier la délocalisation du
sommet si possible dans une capitale du Nord où les
choses peuvent être mieux vérouillée comme cela a été
le cas à Genève et les autres qui veulent tout faire
pour que le sommet ait lieu à Tunis dans l'intérêt du
peuple tunisien, de l'Afrique et du Sud en général.
La division peut être un élément de stratégie pour la
crédibilité encore faut-il en parler sérieusement pour
dépasser l'handicam et aller de l'avant...
Amitiés
Djilali 
--- Tracey Naughton <t.naughton at iafrica.com> wrote:
> Greetings from Johannesburg.
> 
> Below are some notes on the Tunis meeting from David
> Lewis of the European
> Broadcasting Union who represented the Media Caucus
> in the recent Tunis
> meeting.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tracey Naughton
>  
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> ------ Forwarded Message
> 
> > Subject: Notes from Tunis
> > 
> > Hi Tracey,
> > Very briefly:
> > We were 90-100 officials, diplomats,
> representatives of civil
> > society, gathered to hear a good speech from the
> Tunisian minister (who then
> > absented himself for the duration, except to host
> a dinner) and pleas from
> > Utsumi to help out with ideas for WSIS II.  There
> was, he said, no clear
> > idea of what should be done by whom in the wake of
> Geneva. ITU's Council had
> > instructed him that ITU should not be engaged in
> anything that would be
> > "outside of ITU's core business". So others would
> have to step in.
> > After the first plenary we were divided into three
> groups by
> > language:  Bilingual English-French, French,
> English to consider the same
> > three questions in three different sessions, each
> to be followed by a
> > plenary.
> > 1.    How should the Geneva meeting be followed
> up?  Who should
> > report to Tunis, and how?
> > 2.    What deliverables should there be from
> Tunis?  A report?
> > Resolutions?  A "Charter"?
> > 3.    How should Tunis be organized/prepared?  Who
> would take
> > responsibility?  Who would provide the money?
> > To answer the first question I attended the
> bilingual working group.
> > My statement about the importance of the media was
> ignored by the
> > rapporteur. So I went to the English group for
> discussion on the second
> > question, and made a similar statement about the
> importance of radio and TV,
> > freedom of the press, how countries without
> electricity in every home should
> > think about radio before computers.  Etc.  The
> rapporteur made very brief,
> > undetailed mention to the plenary of the media.
> > There was a meeting of the Civil Society bureau on
> the first
> > evening, which spent all its time deciding whether
> the meeting was official
> > or unofficial, whether it should have a chair and
> an agenda, whether it
> > should be minuted ...
> > By the second morning I was seeing if there was an
> earlier flight
> > out.  (There wasn't, so I left as originally
> planned at 1500 hours, just
> > after the beginning of the afternoon session.)
> > From my corridor discussions with a couple of
> diplomats, it seems
> > that even the sympathetic ones feel they have shot
> their bolt by insisting
> > on Article 19 etc in the Geneva declaration.  If
> the media want to have a
> > role in Part II, they seemed to be saying, we
> should get involved in
> > alliances to perform activities that could be
> reported to Tunis.
> > As I could not stay to the end of the meeting, I
> do not know if any
> > firm decisions were taken.  Certainly there is
> nothing of substance on the
> > WSIS website.  The Swiss were beginning to think
> of holding the first
> > Prepcom only early next year, with a second in
> Tunis perhaps in autumn 2005,
> > but a decision was expected at a meeting of the
> government bureau this week
> > in Geneva.
> > That's all I've got time to report now.  I'll be
> happy to answer any
> > questions, if I can.
> > Best regards
> > David
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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